Everyone needs a go-to chocolate cake recipe. A versatile cake that you can put with anything, serve anytime, and will hold up each time. This is mine. It’s the one I used on The Great Canadian Baking Show, and it’s the one that makes it into most of my layer cakes. It’s intensely chocolatey, not…

My mom’s birthday was in October. I told her that I was going to bake her a cake, but between work, everyone’s schedules, and this little thing I did that took over my life, it kept getting pushed back. Eventually, we got to Hanukkah and I still hadn’t made my mom’s birthday cake, so we…

Stick with me here – this is a long one, but oh boy is it ever worth it. I like Babka. I know what you’re thinking. “Obviously you like babka, Corey. Everyone likes babka!” What’s there not to like? Babka is a deliciously soft, sweet bread, filled with chocolate or whatever else you feel like…

[Scroll down to get to the recipe] If you’ve been following my baking adventures on The Great Canadian Baking Show, you will have seen Episode 2’s… unfortunate… (to put it generously) bagel-gate. The social media image shared by the show sums it up best: Oops. So here’s the thing: I actually make really good bagels. Ask…

I am a contestant on Season 1 of the Great Canadian Baking Show! Welp, the cake is out of the bag! That’s how the saying goes, right? As an enormous fan of the The Great British Bake Off, I am SO FREAKING EXCITED to FIIIIINALLY be able to tell you that I’m a contestant on…

Anyone who has had a good Challah knows that you don’t need an excuse for a pillow-y soft, eggy slice of the cake-like bread. But if there’s one thing us Jews knows, it’s food, and how to create holidays based around food (or the absence thereof). Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year…

(tl;dr No recipe today, but tips on how to use ‘Baked Soda’ to make every bread more delicious, and teaser for a special bagel-related announcement soon) If you’re reading this, you probably know that I’m a lawyer by training. I have zero professional baking experience or training. So I’m generally not one to brag about…

Well, it’s not actually a brain, but it sort of looks like one, doesn’t it? A few weeks ago, I was browsing one of my favourite food blogs slash instagrams and came upon their description of this odd bread addition they call ‘Dutch Crunch’. Essentially, it’s a yeast/rice flour mixture which adds some texture and visual…

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